Response parsing occasionally fails to parse floats (#1692)

2 files changed, 53 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/redis/commands/helpers.py b/redis/commands/helpers.py
index 22cb622..46eb83d 100644
--- a/redis/commands/helpers.py
+++ b/redis/commands/helpers.py
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ def parse_to_list(response):
         try:
             res.append(int(item))
         except ValueError:
-            res.append(nativestr(item))
+            try:
+                res.append(float(item))
+            except ValueError:
+                res.append(nativestr(item))
         except TypeError:
             res.append(None)
     return res
diff --git a/tests/test_helpers.py b/tests/test_helpers.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..467e00c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_helpers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import string
+from redis.commands.helpers import (
+    delist,
+    list_or_args,
+    nativestr,
+    parse_to_list,
+    quote_string,
+    random_string
+)
+
+
+def test_list_or_args():
+    k = ["hello, world"]
+    a = ["some", "argument", "list"]
+    assert list_or_args(k, a) == k+a
+
+    for i in ["banana", b"banana"]:
+        assert list_or_args(i, a) == [i] + a
+
+
+def test_parse_to_list():
+    r = ["hello", b"my name", "45", "555.55", "is simon!", None]
+    assert parse_to_list(r) == \
+        ["hello", "my name", 45, 555.55, "is simon!", None]
+
+
+def test_nativestr():
+    assert nativestr('teststr') == 'teststr'
+    assert nativestr(b'teststr') == 'teststr'
+    assert nativestr('null') is None
+
+
+def test_delist():
+    assert delist(None) is None
+    assert delist([b'hello', 'world', b'banana']) == \
+        ['hello', 'world', 'banana']
+
+
+def test_random_string():
+    assert len(random_string()) == 10
+    assert len(random_string(15)) == 15
+    for a in random_string():
+        assert a in string.ascii_lowercase
+
+
+def test_quote_string():
+    assert quote_string("hello world!") == '"hello world!"'
+    assert quote_string('') == '""'
+    assert quote_string('hello world!') == '"hello world!"'